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The No. 1 Entertainer of the Year 2010: 'Harry Potter'!

Congrats to the "Harry Potter" cast for making the top spot in "Extra's" Entertainer of the Year poll!

It makes sense that this enduring, magical franchise would rank the
highest, since the books and movies have been entertaining people for
over a decade. With the release of the first book, "Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone" in 1997, author JK Rowling spurred the imagination of
millions with her fantastical world of witches and wizards, centering
on one boy who survives an attack by the world's most powerful and evil
wizard, Lord Voldemort -- and spends the rest of his childhood battling
him.

The first film was released in 2001 and introduced young newcomer Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, along with Emma Watson and Rupert Grint
as Harry's stalwart best friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley.
Through the course of the next nine years, audiences watched these
talented three grow up, supported by a laundry list of British
A-listers, including Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman,
Ralph Fiennes, Imelda Staunton, Emma Thompson, Gary Oldman, Jim
Broadbent, Jason Isaacs, Helena Bonham Carter and more.

The seventh and final book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,"
sees the final conflict between Harry and Lord Voldemort come to an end
-- and Warner Bros. announced the book would be split into two movies.
Part I opens wide today and Part II in July, 2011.

Here are 35 memorable quotes from the "Harry Potter" flicks over the years, plus other Potter content!

'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'

Sorting Hat: "Hmm, difficult. VERY difficult. Plenty of courage, I see. Not a bad mind, either. There's talent, oh yes. And a thirst to prove yourself. But where to put you?"
Harry: "Not Slytherin. Not Slytherin."
Sorting Hat: "Not Slytherin, eh? Are you sure? You could be great, you know. It's all here in your head. And Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, there's no doubt about that. No?"
Harry: "Please, please. Anything but Slytherin, anything but Slytherin."
Sorting Hat: "Well if you're sure, better be... GRYFFINDOR!"

'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'

Lord Voldemort: "Harry Potter. We meet again."
Harry: "Voldemort?"
Lord Voldemort: "Yes. You see what I've become? See what I must do to survive? Live off another, a mere parasite! Unicorn blood can sustain me, but it cannot give me a body of my own. But there is something that can; something that, conveniently enough, lies in your pocket!"

'Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets'

Ron: "Why spiders? Why couldn't it be 'follow the butterflies'?"

'Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets'

Gilderoy Lockhart (Kenneth Branagh): "Ah... yes, well, that can sometimes happen. Um, but, uh, the point is, uh, you can no longer feel any pain. And, very clearly, the bones are not broken."
Hagrid: "Broken? There's no bones left!"
Gilderoy Lockhart: "Much more flexible, though."

'Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets'

Harry: "Not to be rude or anything, but this isn't a great time for me to have a house elf in my bedroom."

'Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets'

Hermione (Emma Watson): "He called me a mudblood."
Hagrid: "He did not!"
Harry: "What's a mudblood?"
Hermione: "It means dirty blood. Mudblood's a really foul name for someone who's Muggle born. Someone with non-magic parents. Someone like me. It's not a term one usually hears in civilized conversation."
Hagrid: "See the thing is, Harry, there's some wizards, like the Malfoy family, who think they're better than everyone else because they're what people call 'pure blood.'"
Harry: "That's horrible!"
Ron: [burps up another slug] "It's disgusting."
Hagrid: "And it's codswallop to boot. 'Dirty blood.' Why, there isn't a wizard alive today that's not half-blood or less. More to the point, they've yet to think of a spell that our Hermione can't do. Come 'ere. Don't you think on it, Hermione. Don't you think on it for one minute."

'Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets'

Tom Marvolo Riddle (Christian Coulson): "How is it that a baby with no extraordinary magical talent was able to defeat the greatest wizard of all time? How did you escape with nothing but a scar, while Lord Voldemort's powers were destroyed?"
Harry: "Why do you care how I escaped? Voldemort was after your time!"
Tom Marvolo Riddle: "Voldemort is my past, present, and future."

'Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban"

Shrunken Head: [while the Knight Bus is compressing itself to squeeze between two buses] "Why the long faces?"

'Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban"

Harry: "Professor, why do the Dementors affect me so? More than anyone else, I mean?"
Professor Lupin (David Thewlis): "Listen, Dementors are among the foulest creatures to walk this earth. They feed on every good feeling, every happy memory until a person is left with nothing but his worst experiences. The Dementors affect you more than others because there are true horrors in your past, horrors your classmates can scarcely imagine. You are not weak, Harry. You have nothing to be ashamed of."
Harry: "I'm scared, Professor."
Professor Lupin: "Well, I'd consider you a fool if you weren't."

'Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban"

Sirius Black (Gary Oldman): "I expect you're tired of hearing this, but you look so like your father. Except your eyes. You have..."
Harry: "My mother's eyes."
Sirius Black: "It's cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here." [puts his hand to Harry's heart]

'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'

Ron: [discussing inviting dates to the Yule Ball] "This is mad! At this rate, we'll be the only ones in our year without dates! Well, us and Neville."
Harry: "Yeah, but then again he could take himself."
Hermione: "It might interest you to know that Neville's already got someone."
Ron: "What? Now I'm really depressed. Oi, Hermione... you're a girl."
Hermione: "Very well spotted."
Ron: "Come with one of us! It's one thing for a bloke to show up alone, but for a girl it's just sad."
Hermione: [angrily] "I won't be going alone, because believe it or not, someone's asked me! And I said yes!" [She stomps off]
Ron: "Bloody hell. She's lying, right?"
Harry: "If you say so."

'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'

Prof. Dumbledore (Michael Gambon): "The Goblet of Fire! Anyone wishing to submit themselves to the tournament need only write their name upon a piece of parchment and throw it in the flame before this hour on Thursday night. Do not do so lightly! If chosen, there's no turning back. As from this moment, the Triwizard Tournament has begun!"

'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'

Professor Moody (Brendan Gleeson): "Alastor Moody. Ex-Auror, Ministry malcontent, and your new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. I am here because Dumbledore asked me. End of story, goodbye, the end! Any questions? When it comes to the Dark Arts I believe in a practical approach. But first, which of you can tell me how many Unforgivable Curses there are?"
Hermione: "Three, sir."
Professor Moody: "And they are so named?"
Hermione: "Because they are unforgivable. The use of any one of them will..."
Professor Moody: "Earn you a one-way ticket to Azkaban. Correct. The Ministry says you are too young to see what these curses do. I say different! You need to know what you're up against. You need to be prepared..."

'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'

Cedric Diggory (Robert Pattinson): "I realize I never really thanked you properly for tipping me off about those dragons."
Harry: "Forget about it. I'm sure you would've done the same for me."
Cedric Diggory: "Exactly. You know the Prefects' bathroom on the fifth floor? It's not a bad place for a bath. Just take your egg and... mull things over in the hot water."

'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'

Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes): "Harry! I'd almost forgotten you were here, standing on the bones of my father. I'd introduce you, but rumor has it you're almost as famous as me these days... Astounding what a few drops of your blood will do, eh, Harry?"

'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'

Prof. Dumbledore: "No spell can reawaken the dead, Harry. I trust you know that. Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."

'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'

Hermione: "He really is out there, isn't he? We've got to be able to defend ourselves. And if Umbridge refuses to teach us how, we need someone who will."

'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'

'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'

Harry: "This connection between me and Voldemort... what if the reason for it is that I am becoming more like him? I just feel so angry, all the time. What if after everything that I've been through, something's gone wrong inside me? What if I'm becoming bad?"
Sirius Black: "I want you to listen to me very carefully, Harry. You're not a bad person. You're a very good person, who bad things have happened to. Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are."

'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'

Lucius Malfoy (Jason Isaacs): "Haven't you always wondered what was the reason for the connection between you and the Dark Lord. Why he was unable to kill you when you were just an infant. Don't you want to know the secret, of your scar. All of the answers are there, Potter, in your hand. All you have to do is give it to me, I can show you everything."
[The Death Eaters close in]
Harry: "I've waited fourteen years..."
Lucius Malfoy: "I know."
Harry Potter: "Think I can wait a little longer. NOW!"
Harry, Ron, Hermione, Luna, Ginny Weasley (Bonnie Wright) and Neville Longbottom (Matthew Lewis): "STUPEFY!"

'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'

Lord Voldemort: [possessing Harry and speaking to Dumblebore] "You've lost, old man."Harry: [breaking through] "You're the weak one. And you'll never know love, or friendship. And I feel sorry for you."

'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'

Hermione: "Hey! She's only interested in you because she thinks you're the Chosen One."Harry: "But I am the Chosen One."[Hermione smacks him on the head with the newspaper]Harry: "Sorry... kidding!"

'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'

Young Tom Riddle (Hero Fiennes-Tiffin): "I can make things move without touching them. I can make animals do what I want without training them. I can make bad things happen to people who are mean to me. I can make them hurt, if I want... Who are you?"
Prof. Dumbledore: "Well, I'm like you, Tom. I'm different."Tom: "Prove it."
[Dumbledore turns and looks at the wardrobe, which bursts into flames. Something rattles on the inside.]

'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'

Harry: "Did you know, sir? Then?"
Prof. Dumbledore: "Did I know that I just met the most dangerous dark wizard of all time? No."

'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'

Prof. McGonagall (Maggie Smith): "Why is it, that whenever anything happens, it's always you three?"Ron: "Believe me, Professor. I've been asking myself that same question for the past six years."

'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'

Prof. Dumbledore: [after Harry confusedly finishes viewing a memory from Dumbledore's pensieve] "Confused? I'd be surprised if you weren't."
Harry: "Well, I don't understand. What happened?"
Prof. Dumbledore: "This is perhaps the most important memory I've collected. It is also a lie. This memory has been tampered with by the same person whose memory it is, our old friend, Professor Slughorn."
Harry: "But why would he tamper with his own memory?"
Prof. Dumbledore: "I suspect he's ashamed of it."
Harry: "Why?"
Prof. Dumbledore: "Why, indeed? I asked you to get to know Professor Slughorn, and you have done so. Now I want you to persuade him to divulge his true memory any way you can."
Harry: "I don't know him that well, sir."
Prof. Dumbledore: "This memory is everything. Without it, we are blind. Without it, we leave the fate of our world to chance. You have no choice. You must not fail."

'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'

Hermione: [after she sees Ron accepting an embarrassing necklace from Lavender] "Excuse me, I have to go vomit."

'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'

Prof. Dumbledore: "Draco, please let me help you!"
Draco: "[crying] I don't need your help! I have to do this! I have to kill you... or he's gonna kill me!"